She claimed that at least 17,000 tickets in the 19,000-seat auditorium were claimed by no-show attendees. Her video went on to get two million views. Mary Jo Laupp, a TikTok user from Iowa, told the Times she posted a video calling for people to register for tickets and not show up. “The majority of people who made them deleted them after the first day because we didn’t want the Trump campaign to catch wind.”
They all know the algorithms and how they can boost videos to get where they want,” YouTuber Elijah Daniel told the Times. K-Pop Twitter and Alt TikTok have a good alliance where they spread information amongst each other very quickly. “It spread mostly through Alt TikTok - we kept it on the quiet side where people do pranks and a lot of activism. Videos with millions of views spread across social media, but were deleted after 24-48 hours in order to keep the operation secret. The Times reports that a plan to register for free tickets but not show up to the rally was organized by users on the app TikTok and social media accounts by Korean pop music fans. On Friday night, K-Pop fans and TikTok users claimed to have been behind all the empty seats at the event.Īhead of the rally, Parscale, tweeted that there were more than a million ticket requests, but The New York Times and many reporters noted that attendance was significantly lower. Parscale added that the “fake news media” warned people away from the rally because of COVID-19 and “recent images of American cities on fire” led to fewer people attending.
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